Hedera Community Discovery: Creamies Rapid Fire Interview in The Lighthouse (Part 1)

This interview was originally published by Genfinity.

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King Solomon interviews Creamies as part of the Hedera Corner in the LightHouse by Genfinity! Brought to you by LightHouse Report sponsor Hedera Hashgraph and in collaboration with our partner and Hedera wallet provider HashPack.

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Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍What is up, everybody? Solomon here. I hope you guys are all having a fantastic day. As some of you may know, we have the Hedera corner within Genfinity and we've been facilitating these interviews. Essentially, 10 questions, 10 answers, hopefully in 10 minutes or so. I'm super excited today to have Matt from Creamies building out on the Hedera ecosystem. How are you doing today, Matt?

Creamies – Matt - Founder
‍I'm good, I'm good. Thank you for having me. So, I usually go by Monke, so people might be more familiar with Monke, but my real name is Matt. Uh, call me whatever you want. Thank you for having me, Solomon.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍Yeah, thanks, Monkey. Appreciate you joining in. I'm gonna hop right in, so the first question that we have here is to describe Creamies.

Creamies – Matt - Founder
‍Um, I guess Creamies really started, um, this might answer a few of your questions, but Creamies really started with, uh, when I started degening into NFT space in Hedera. I saw the lack of things that were, to me, uh, valuable, like liquidity. Right. We need liquidity, but we want to ape into NFTs, but they're not liquid. Right. You need to find a buyer to kind of buy your NFT to buy something else, right, or to sell your NFT and then buy something else. For me, that was a big problem. And um, I even say it on my socials, right? It's, I'm a master paper hand. I like to sell and buy stuff. That's kind of the enjoyment I get. So, Creamies is basically an NFT project that gives you some type of liquidity while you hold the NFT. So, I know a lot of people like to say passive income, it's not so much. We like to use that word because obviously the legality, you know, of it all, but we give you Cream tokens, which is right now, um, exchangeable for hbar, right, our native token on our L1. So, as of right now on Saucer Swap, the major DEX on Hedera, you could get for one Creamie, you could get four hbar a day, right? That's the, that's the claim, and it's, it's been pretty steady for a while, um, it's not one of those pump and dump type of schemes. It's a slow drip. We did provide the liquidity for it. Um, yeah, it's been going very well, and yeah, we, I guess I started the project with my CTO because we've been through enough projects where we were like, okay, this is what we want to see. This is kind of what doesn't work for us on a personal level, and we try to build out those strong points of what works, and that's what we have with Creamies.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍That's awesome. Um, I think you alluded to it a little bit, but um, I guess I'll move into the next, uh, question here because I think that's a really great wrap-up, and you did tackle question number two, which is why are you building in web three? Unless you want to add anything to that, I think with, uh, the liquidity aspects with NFTs certainly makes sense. Um, personally, I guess, you know, I guess I will still ask it, why are you building in web 3? What interests you? What kind of brought you here?

Creamies – Matt - Founder
‍Well, my experience in not web 3, but previous to web three was, you know, a lot of corporate businessing and uh entrepreneurial background. Same with my CTO. Like, um, he's head and shoulders above, like, my experience. He's worked for Fortune 500 companies. He was the director of a Fortune 500 company for seven plus years. He's had that death background. I've had the marketing background, as well as like exporting and mark, uh, sorry, like outreach, right? So, it kind of makes sense. I have control over the artistic and kind of operational stuff, as well as guac. I do have helped a lot of help from guac and our mods. And our mods aren't just like paid mods. Right. I know a lot of projects like to do the paid mods, but they were more friends that that have interest in the project that have, um, rapport with me personally. Um, our CTO, again, he's just used to running, you know, these infrastructural development type projects, and he has a lot of experience, which, to me, I always say to him, like, you're punching below your belt, below your weight, but you know, he's enjoying it. I'm enjoying it. The reason why we built in web 3 is because we felt like we had a lot to bring, especially to Hedera, because if you're not familiar with Hedera, it's very young. And I know you are, Solomon. I guess I'm telling your listeners, it's very young. When we launched our project, there wasn't a DeFi platform, and we saw that that was an opportunity, not just for our project, but as an ecosystem overall, as a place where I wanted to invest my capital for the time being and invest my time more importantly with the project. So, we saw how young it was, it's still getting built up, and the way I like to equate it is, okay, you have Bitcoin, you know, 1G, you have Ethereum, 2G, 3G, and then you have Hedera, algorithm, whatever have you, the next generation blockchain, which is like 4G, 5G, right? And we saw that beforehand and we started building in February and March, so that's why we're building. We saw the value proposition that we could bring, and we saw the value proposition of just spending our time and effort and money right in this space.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍Totally makes sense. No, I appreciate it. It's a great answer. Um, I guess, um, moving forward, uh, who's the target audience and community for Creamies? And how have you facilitated that community up to date?

Creamies – Matt - Founder
‍Uh, great question. I would say our target audience for Creamies is, um, it kind of doesn't make sense in this illogical space, and NFTs are often very illogical. Uh, people will pay hundreds and thousands of dollars for an NFT just for the image and just one creator, and that's dangerous. That's the way I saw it, and again, that's one of those things that I felt we need to fix. So, you know, it's very illogical, but our target audience is the logical, mathematical, okay, if I buy this, uh, one NFT, how much can I make on ROI, right? And what are they building behind the scenes where it would keep that ROI valid after a year or six months, right? It's not just, okay, I see the ROI today, but where's the ROI in three months and six months in the future, right? Are these guys actually working or are they just selling me a pipe dream, yeah, right? And I, and I've been sold the pipe training so many times. Same with my CPO. That's actually how we met. Uh, we were on Saucer Swap Discord. I like to tell the story. Sorry, if I'm rambling, but, we met and we kind of bonded because we were rugged many times before, and we were arrived on similar projects, like, uh, the main one being Time Wonderland, right? This, uh, new thing, re basting project. Oh, that's great. You know, I could buy a Lambo after so many, so many days. You know, why not invest my money? But, yeah, we, we saw those. We experienced those firsthand, and we saw the issues with them, and you know, we tried to solve that with solid tokenomics, and that's the main thing, right? If you look at our tokenomics, it's very solid, and I'm not sure if you looked at it, uh, Solomon, but I think that's part of most people's reasoning for buying into our project, because I, I know you bought, you bought a master creamer out of nowhere in one day. It was pretty hype in our Discord when you did that. Thank you.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍No problem. Yeah, no, I, um, I have a major issue with Hedera NFTs where I've never actually sold a Hedera NFT. I've been buying them for about a year. So, I know that you were, you know, talking about, you know, kind of the trading aspects, which is certainly necessary to build up liquidity within an ecosystem and a network. I'm not, um, I'm not participating in that. I just buy and hold them. Like, I literally have every, uh, Hedera NFT that I've ever bought, which is interesting. Um, I, I want to move forward, uh, so I think you touched on a little bit. If you were to say one thing that really differentiates Creamies from other projects building out in web 3, um, what would that one thing be?

Creamies – Matt - Founder
‍One thing would be that we're working 24/7. I mean, I know a lot of projects state this, and we're working ahead of the curve because of our experience. We understand we can't copy and paste the same projects and the same roadmap and be successful. Um, I quit my career to do this, right? My CTO is semi-retired, so he was living in the States. He moved to his native country, and he got a team together. We're trying to make it right, but our main thing is that we're not, how do I say this, um, without spotting other things, without sounding like a bad guy, we're not drying up liquidity for drying up liquidity's sake. We're actually trying to bring value, and that's our main goal from the beginning. We're not minting any future generations, we're just, um, trying to bring as much value to the ecosystem as possible with our creamlands.com release, which released today. I don't know if you saw that. creamlands.com, uh, shout out shills, um, we kind of showcase what we're trying to do with bringing value to the space, and we have 14 partners, uh, another shoutout is to some of our partners, who are major ecosystem players like Saucer Swap, uh, the major Dex on Hedera as of right now, uh, HashPack, the major wallet. I'm sure you use this, element, right? To buy our NFTs to interact with Zuse, so we're not here to play games, and we're not here to just dry up liquidity, because I feel like most, um, projects kind of fall into that category where it's like, "Okay, you have a plan, that's great, but like, where's your action items?" Right? And having that corporate background, we know we have, we hold each other, me and my CTO, to very high standards. If you promise me you're going to deliver this by that date, I expect it by that date, um, regardless of what our holders think. This is what we're building, and every line of code, every meeting we have, every dollar spent on marketing, is to create value for our holders. So, I think that's the main difference, and we have over, right now we have a hundred ten thousand dollars in liquidity on Saucer Swap with our same tokens, so you know we're not here just you know, shooting the crap and, I don't know if I could curse, but we're not here just okay, we're not just you know playing games and trying to, I guess, um, give the uh, how do you say, give the give the facade of value, we're actually trying to bring value and we're building every line of code, again, every line of code, every meeting, every talk I have, like with you right now, Solomon, is to create value for the ecosystem and not just our previous ecosystem, but Hedera overall, that's what we're trying to do.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍100%. No, that's fantastic, Matt, thank you, um, monkey, um, you mentioned, uh, Saucer Swap and HashPack. What other partnerships, and maybe this extrapolates out even a little bit beyond partnerships, um, what other partnerships or collaborations have you guys attained so far?

Creamies – Matt - Founder
‍So, um, another thing I personally noticed was a lot of surface-level collaborations don't break that much value, right? So we wanted to avoid that, and that's kind of the main reason we wanted to make partnerships that have real value, like, for example, like, um, our partners, like, that's what I'll name them all, sorry, here's a little shout out to our partners, Dazzle Ducks on Hedera, Lil Universe, Cyber Hedera, Panamania, Mutiny Club, MetaVision, Penguin Pals, H-Barmery, Pixel Land, Crypto Pandas, Cosmic immigrants, HashGraph.name, HashPack, CREETS, Saucer Swap, Gangsters Paradise from Solana, and Dead Pixels Ghost Club, major one people probably know is Dead Pixels Ghost Club, HashPack, HashGraph.name, which is a domain provider, we have our .cream domains, um, you know, shout out to all of them. HashPack, of course, Saucer Swap, of course, they're major players in the ecosystem. So, the reason I'm naming these names is because a lot of our partners have these, um, you know, HTS tokens, um, and we try to create utility for them, and we also, personally, me personally, I try to help them with their tokenomics. Obviously, I can't guide them or drive them the way I want them to, because it's their project, right? If they want to do something with their tokens, they can do something with it, but I try to help them as much as I can. So, again, we were the first NFT, uh, and I think we're the only one on Saucer Swap with an APR, right, with an incentive by sealed on the liquidity pools. We actually have two at the moment, Sauce and Cream, which I like to call Alfredo H-bar extreme, which was our again, L1 token and bringing, um, so, yeah, our collaborations are not just surface level art collaborations, it's much more. I like to refer to them as partners, and that's how we go about it, right? We bring value to each other, not just showing, not just, uh, whitelist giveaways, but more so, how do we bring value for you guys, how do you bring value for you guys, and it's all value proposition, even between the projects itself, um, again, every minute I spend on web 3 is value building and value proposition, um, I don't think we're all here just to have fun. I like to have fun. If you know me personally, and in our Discord, we just spam gifts, that's like deep gen gifts, and I feel like we capture that very well. We're the epitome of degen on Hedera, I like to say.